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We don't have to take a look at a newspaper to know that the world has need of healing. We need only glance at our own backyards and main streets.

Many of us have had to retract a "never. " Statements such as "My children would never act like that" or "I'll never forgive her" can fall rather rapidly.

Christian Science teaches that there is one Mind, infinite good, and that there is no power apart from this Mind. It also teaches that man, whether spoken of individually or collectively, is the reflection of this Mind.

Evil is not an entity. Mrs.

Christian Science makes clear that the student of this Science is in the business of demonstrating—proving—the power and reality of God through prayer and spiritual regeneration. And it teaches that his goal isn't to live "happily ever after" in matter.

In his brief, useful book Can We Trust the Old Testament? Bible scholar William Neil writes, "The first thing .

"When the time was come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem. " Luke 9:51.

The healing office of Christ is eloquently stated in Luke 4 (which echoes Isa. 61:1,2) : "[The Lord] hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

The question a fellow member asked me about going to church surprised me. Of course we were going! We made a practice of going, and our week would seem empty without church—without the spiritual inspiration, substance, and joy it always supplied.

God was revealed to Moses as the great I am and as the Lawgiver. He was felt by the people of Israel to be their guide and their protector, as the King of kings, the Almighty.